Archival Materialities in a Digital Age

Eirini Goudarouli is Head of Research at The National Archives, UK, where she leads an interdisciplinary team of experts. She has extensive experience in leading research and engagement programmes and in building impactful research collaborations and networks. Her passion is to drive innovation that enables new ideas for broadening our current understanding of collections and their discoverability through ground-breaking research, safe and responsible use of emerging technologies, interdisciplinary collaborations and knowledge-exchange initiatives. Eirini has published extensively, especially within the space of Digital Cultural Heritage. Recent publications include the contribution 'Digital Innovation and Archival Thinking', in Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction (2023, eds Andrew Prescott and Alison. Wiggins). Andrew Prescott is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. From 1979-2000, he was Curator in the Department of Manuscripts, British Library. He has also worked in digital humanities units and libraries at the University of Sheffield, University of Wales Lampeter and King's College London. From 2012-2019, he was Theme Lead Fellow for the AHRC strategic theme Digital Transformations. He was recently a co-investigator on the People of 1381 project. Recent publications include Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Projects (2020, with Simon Popple and Daniel Mutibwa) and Archives: Power, Truth and Fiction (2023, with Alison Wiggins).